Christian Wenz is a web pioneer, author, and entrepreneur with a focus on web technologies. Since 1999, he has written on various topics including web development and web application security. His books have been translated into 10 languages. He is a fixture at developer conferences worldwide. In his day job, he supports companies and enterprises in everything web. Follow him on Twitter: @chwenz.

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Pranav Rastogi is a member of Microsoft ASP.NET product team, and is based in Seattle. Over the past years, Pranav has worked on a variety of areas such as ASP.NET Web Forms, Dynamic Data and more recently ASP.NET SignalR. He is passionate about understanding web developer woes with the Microsoft stack, and helps champion tools, packages or libraries that will enhance the web development experience on the Microsoft stack. Pranav is also a regular speaker on a variety of ASP.NET related topics at various worldwide conferences. Before joining Microsoft, Pranav graduated from University Of Florida with a Masters in Computer Science.

Pranav is also a food junkie who sometimes works as a Chef de cuisine at home. He is an adventure seeker and can be often found backpacking in the wilderness. In this spare time though Pranav, regularly practices his bartending skills on his friends. If you know anyone who is looking to throw a party and needs a bartender then get in touch with him.

Todd Miranda is an active proponent of .NET technologies and software craftsmanship as a whole. He has been developing on various platforms for over 20 years and has been involved with .NET since it was first released in 2000. He has worked with many of the .NET platforms but focuses primarily on ASP.NET.

He is the owner of NxtDimension Solutions in Birmingham, Alabama and provides consulting and training on the Microsoft stack. Todd has been a Microsoft MVP since 2007. He is the co-founder of the Birmingham .NET User Group and remains active in the development community.

He has recorded hundreds of online training videos on Microsoft development topics including security, JavaScript, Silverlight, WPF, Expression and ASP.NET. He is an Ineta speaker and regularly presents at user groups, community events, and technical conferences.

Jason Gaylord is an application developer from Northeastern Pennsylvania. He is currently the Director of Technology at United One Resources, a risk management information services company, in Wilkes-Barre. Jason actively maintains a personal website at jasongaylord.com.

Jason's programming career started with a simple GOTO statement in MSDOS. Since that time, he's had the opportunity to plan, build, test, and deploy several enterprise Windows and web applications. Included in those are several integrations with accounting and operating systems to deliver B2B applications used by some of the top banks in the United States.

Outside of the normal day to day activities, Jason blogs, speaks, and organizes technology events within Northeastern PA including TECHbash and NEPA GiveCamp. He's the group leader for the .NET Valley technology user group. Jason has been a Microsoft MVP since 2003. He remains an active member of the ASPInsiders, a group that provides product feedback directly to the ASP.NET team, and IE UserAgents, a group that provides product feedback directly to the Internet Explorer team.